Articles by Jonathon Wilson
My Demon Season 1 Episode 3 Recap – A moral grey area
Episode 3 of My Demon is one you shouldn’t be complacent with since it’s happy to devote half its runtime to a light-hearted and somewhat...
Sweet Home Season 2 Ending Explained – Is Eun-hyeok alive?
As suspected, the Sweet Home Season 2 ending doesn’t necessarily feel like an ending to the series but more of a stop-gap between seasons. Ordinarily, that...
Sweet Home Season 2 Episode 7 Recap – Hyun-su plays doting parent
I’ve been a bit critical of Sweet Home Season 2 in the last few recaps, but Episode 7, the penultimate outing, is pretty good. It...
Sweet Home Season 2 Episode 6 Recap – What happens to Mrs. Oh and Jun-il?
Sweet Home Season 2 is a big show. It has big ideas. And there’s literally a lot of it, with eight episodes running comfortably over...
Sweet Home Season 2 Episode 5 Recap – What’s going on with Jun-il?
I said about Episode 4 of Sweet Home Season 2 that it was the first episode to really feel like part of a new season....
Sweet Home Season 2 Episode 4 Recap – Why does Chief Ji hate Eun-yu?
Episode 4 of Sweet Home Season 2 is, in many ways, the first episode to really feel like it’s part of a new season. The...
Sweet Home Season 2 Episode 3 Recap – What happens to the Prime Minister?
All roads must converge, and in Episode 3 of Sweet Home Season 2, they converge on Bamseom. There’s all sorts going on over there, from...
Sweet Home Season 2 Episode 2 Recap – What is Hyun-su’s ability?
Despite retaining the same breakneck, all-action pace of the season premiere, Episode 2 of Sweet Home Season 2 nonetheless feels a little more coherent. There’s...
Sweet Home Season 2 Review – A more ambitious and flawed follow-up
It has been three years since we last saw Sweet Home, the Netflix adaptation of the popular Naver webtoon of the same name. And a...
Sweet Home Season 2 Episode 1 Recap – Who are the real monsters?
“Humankind is a virus, and the monsters are the vaccine.” This is a theory posited in the cold open of Sweet Home Season 2, Episode 1, the...
Black Cake Season 1 Episode 7 Recap – A strong, moving penultimate episode
Forgive me a small observation, but something occurred to me in the first few seconds of Black Cake Episode 7, and it’s niggling. I haven’t...
Fargo Season 5 Episode 3 Recap – Dot steps up her home security for Halloween
The first two episodes of Fargo Season 5 were, naturally, about setup. They introduced the characters and their connections to each other, claimed to be based on...
Beacon 23 Season 1 Episode 4 Recap – What is Milan looking for?
Episode 4 of Beacon 23 Season 1 leaves Aster and Halan to fend for themselves for a week, instead wheeling back 180 years for a...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 Ending Explained – Do Nam-soon and Hee-sik end up together?
The ending of Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 constitutes a “happy” ending, sort of, as well as a tease for the already-confirmed third spin-off. But...
My Demon Season 1 Episode 2 Recap – Who is trying to kill Do-hee and why?
In many ways, My Demon is turning out to be the quintessential romantic K-Drama – the leads are enemies but they’re so good-looking they can’t...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 2: Is the Netflix K-Drama strong enough to secure a renewal?
Strong Girl Nam-soon is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a spin-off of Strong Girl Bong-soon. Kang Nam-soon, the protagonist, is a blood relative of Do Bong-soon and has the same...
My Demon Season 1 Episode 1 Recap – How does Gu-won lose his powers
“Demonic romance” are two words that you’re unlikely to find together very often, but the romantic K-drama My Demon Season 1 — not to be...
A Nearly Normal Family Season 1 Ending Explained – Who killed Chris?
A Nearly Normal Family is a murder mystery, so the ending of Season 1 – which will almost certainly be its only season – is...
A Nearly Normal Family Season 1 Review – A gripping thriller
It isn’t like Netflix is short on gripping international thrillers, but it’s always nice to have another. Enter, then, A Nearly Normal Family, an attention-grabbing...
Here’s everything that happened in My Daemon Season 1
My Daemon Season 1 is 13 episodes of absolute madness, with a breakneck pace and one far-out idea after another courtesy of Thai-based Igloo Studio. A...